Withdrawal Symptoms

By

Tim Annett

Updated March 8, 2007 5:24 p.m. ET

The president is expected to take plenty of heat from the left during his swing through Hugo Chavez country in coming days, but political southpaws at home served up a parting punch by revealing a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.

Just hours before President Bush was scheduled to head off for a sweep through Latin America, House Democrats unveiled legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq before the end of next year. The proposal is the first time this Congress has laid out a specific timetable...